Slaney, John Hubert, Private, 406, 19th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Matlock, Derbyshire Enlisted Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia Killed in action 28th July 1916 aged 25 Son of William and Emily Slaney, of 1, Church St., Ossett, Yorks, England. Commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial
John Hubert Slaney enlisted on the 15th May 1915 at Liverpool in New South Wales. He was employed as a labourer, and had previously for eighteen months as an apprentice with W. J. Clark, auctioneer, of Derby. He stated his next of kin as his mother, Mrs. Emily Slaney, of 1, Church Street, Ossett, Yorkshire. Five feet four and three quarter inches tall, he had a fair complexion, blue eyes and light hair, and belonged to the Church of England.
Family gravestone commemorating John Hubert Slaney, All Saints Churchyard, Youlgreave
Born Matlock, Derbyshire
Enlisted Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Killed in action 28th July 1916 aged 25
Son of William and Emily Slaney, of 1, Church St., Ossett, Yorks, England.
Commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial
John Hubert Slaney enlisted on the 15th May 1915 at Liverpool in New South Wales. He was employed as a labourer, and had previously for eighteen months as an apprentice with W. J. Clark, auctioneer, of Derby. He stated his next of kin as his mother, Mrs. Emily Slaney, of 1, Church Street, Ossett, Yorkshire.
Five feet four and three quarter inches tall, he had a fair complexion, blue eyes and light hair, and belonged to the Church of England.
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